Health Affairs Top twelve podcasts of 2022
With 2022 already in our rearview mirror, we wanted to share with our readers and audiophiles our Top 12 Podcast Episodes. Health Affairs produced this year.
This list extends to our various shows, including interviews Health Bodyssienews oriented Health Affairs this weekAnd our story arcade Watch.
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A Health Podyssey: Matthew Trombley on why so many providers experience downside risks in ACOs
Health Bodyssie is our flagship podcast where Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews the researchers who author the papers in our monthly journal. This podcast takes you beyond the pages Health Affairs To bring you insightful conversations on all things health policy, including the latest research on health equity and drug spending.
One of our enduring topics on the capsule is health spending and the changing healthcare payment landscape. In this episode, Matthew Trombley of Abt Associates discusses how to support the creation of ACOs in less populated areas and how downside risks affect the savings and exits of an ACO.
A Health Buddy: Jill Horowitz Questions the Role of Nonprofit Hospitals
In this interview, Jill Horowitz of UCLA School of Law joins Health Bodyssie To discuss the similarities and differences in hospital behavior based on ownership.
Horowitz and Austin Nichols published a paper in the March issue exploring the relationship between the type of ownership of urban hospitals and the lines of service they provide. They found that for-profit hospitals, nonprofit organizations, and government-owned hospitals are more likely to provide a service if they are profitable, but that for-profit hospitals are generally more responsive to the profitability of a service than are nonprofit organizations.
A Health Podyssey: Michael Sun on Racial Bias Hiding in Electronic Health Records
In February, we published a topical issue on racism and health (we’ll be publishing a second installment this year in October). The issue includes papers that trace the long history of racism through current policies and practices that contribute to significant and sustained health disparities.
Sun and co-authors examined bias in how doctors describe patients through history and physical notes entry in a patient’s electronic health record. They found that black patients were 2.5 times more likely to have negative descriptors in their medical records than white patients.
This is amazing Health Bodyssie The episode gives an inside look at that paper/research.
Health Affairs This Week: Why the Inflation Reduction Act is a Big Deal for Health Care
Health Affairs this week Provides a look at the health policy news that grabs our editorial team’s eye, all in 15 minutes or less.
Most episodes provide explanations of the most important stories and why they are important to the health policy audience. This episode is a great starting point if you’ve never heard of the show. Health Affairs’ Leslie Erdlak and Rob Lott delve into the health care and climate change provisions of the Decrease Inflation Act, which was signed into law by President Joe Biden in August.
health bodypiece: Journey: Toyen Ajayi, CEO, Cityblock Health
While Health Bodyssie Focused mostly on newspaper writers, we love interviewing big names in health policy and business from time to time. These Journey episodes feature candid conversations with well-known figures in the healthcare field.
In August, Alan Weil interviewed Dr. Toyen Ajayi, co-founder and CEO of Cityblock Health. They discuss how Ajayi and his partners built a company focused on historically disadvantaged populations and where the company is headed.
If you like this PicnicCheck out this interview with Andy Slavitt from June.
Tracks: Earth Disease: What Government Can Do About Climate Change
This year has paid off Health Affairs Podcast Fellowship Program. In 2021, Four Fellows produced three unique seasons exploring the nooks and crannies of health care through a variety of storytelling—from investigative journalism and health policy explaining to feature-length interviews.
in Earth diseaseJournalist Jared Downing explains the relationship between climate change and healthcare across four episodes. In the fourth and final episode, Jared outlines the carrots and sticks the federal government can use to curb climate change through interviews with Dr. Ashish Jha and Arsenio Mataka of HHS’ Office of Climate Change and Health Equity.
A Health Podyssey: Seth Berkowitz Puts a Number on Socially Specific Spending
Limited access to transportation is a barrier to people’s access to healthcare services. And so, some insurance companies and health systems have begun offering non-emergency transportation benefits.
Seth Berkowitz of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine joined Health Bodyssie To discuss the impact of providing a transportation advantage.
Berkowitz and colleagues evaluated the effects of the NEMT benefit offered to Medicare ACO members. Registrants had very positive feedback towards the program, but it was also associated with increased outpatient visits per person per year and thousands of dollars in outpatient spending.
These findings mark how researchers and business leaders can consider the costs and benefits of spending associated with social determinants of health.
Tracks: While We Wait: In the Archives – A History of Mental Health Policy
For the Fellowship’s podcast, Avni Kulkarni and Sania Ali explore the crisis of coming up with mental health over the course of seven episodes.
This distinguished episode sees Kulkarni and Ali dive into federal politics and archives to learn about the seismic shift in mental health policy that has left the healthcare system scrambling to fill in the gaps for decades.
Listen as Sania and Avni step back in time to make sense of it all and trace the roots of their boarding mental health crisis.
A Health Podyssey: Tara Lagu on physicians’ attitudes toward people with disabilities
In October, we published Disability and Health. In this episode, Alan Weil interviews Tara Lago of Northwestern University about her paper in the issue examining physicians’ attitudes toward patients with disabilities.
A Health Podyssey: Leemore Dafny – 100th Episode
In September of this year, we published the 100th episode of the program Health Bodyssie! To celebrate, Harvard Business School’s Limore Daphne joined the program to talk about the complex topic of pharmaceutical financing.
A Health Podyssey: Ruqaiijah Yearby Reviews Structural Racism in American Health Care Policy
As part of our episodes on racism and health, Rokaya Al Amery of Saint Louis University shares how structural racism is an integral part of American health policy.
Tracks: Microdivision: Consolidation of independent healthcare and primary care
The first season we published arcade This was Lalita Abhiyanker’s six-episode article looking at how standardization in health care affects independent primary care.
This episode sets the stage for an exciting season, which gives listeners a better understanding of how private equity and market forces affect the business of providers and, ultimately, the health of patients.
Watch the arcade New episodes in 2023 on the topics of palliative care and safety net hospitals.